ATHLETES, ACTORS TO PLAY IN TOURNEY.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer Entertainers and former athletes will team this weekend with well-heeled duffers, who paid $1,800 each, to play the same 18 holes that the pros will tackle in next week's Nissan Open The Northern Trust Open, formally known as the Nissan Open and originally known as the Los Angeles Open, is a regular golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It is played annually in February in Pacific Palisades, California. . The Celebrity-Am Tournament, which will tee off at 7 a.m. Sunday at the Valencia Country Club, is the opening event of the 72nd annual Nissan Open, a stop on the men's Professional Golf Association tour. Organizers said 40 celebrities and 160 garden-variety golfers registered for the tournament. They will be grouped in fivesomes, generally with one celebrity per team, said Matt Stepnes, a coordinator for the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Junior Chamber of Commerce, which manages the Nissan Open. Scheduled to participate are former Dodger third-baseman Tim Wallach n. An athlete who participates in a decathlon. Bruce Jenner, Los Angeles Clippers general manager Elgin Baylor, comedians Jack Carter and Norm Crosby, entertainer Pat Boone and actors Hal Linden, Patrick Duffy, Wayne Rogers, Joanna Kerns, Thomas Gibson, Charlie Schlatter, Thomas Calabro, Catherine Bell, Joe Mantegna, Elke Sommer Sommer is a surname, from the German and Danish word for the season "summer". It may refer to:
Others on the fivesome roster include Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe and Sheriff Sherman Block, Stepnes said. Players will use a best-ball format in which the best individual score of a team member becomes the whole team's score for that hole, Stepnes said. At the end of the day, the team with the lowest score will win a set of golf clubs for each player. The event will be a forerunner of the Nissan Open, usually held at the Riviera Country Club The Riviera Country Club is a country club with a championship golf course. It is located in Pacific Palisades, California, within the city limits of Los Angeles, California. The country club opened in 1926, with George C. Thomas, Jr. as the course architect. in Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). but to be played for the first time, starting Feb. 26, at the Valencia Country Club. With a $2.1 million purse, the Nissan Open is expected to draw many of the elite players in men's golf, including 1997 defending champion Nick Faldo, Fred Couples, Corey Pavin, Tom Kite, Lanny Wadkins, Craig Stadler and Tom Watson. The winner of the Nissan Open will take home $378,000, while second place will pay $226,800 and third place, $142,800. The four-round tournament, which will be broadcast on cable's USA Network and on CBS-TV, will end March 1. |
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